Minna Villain

Minna ("Mia") Villain (born November 18, 1891 in Enzuhnen , East Prussia ; † May 5, 1942 in Ravensbrück concentration camp ) was a German resistance fighter against National Socialism .

Life

Villain was a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany and was involved in the Berlin children's friends movement .

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists in 1933, she gathered a group of young people around her, read socialist writings with them and strengthened their opposition to the Nazi regime . From 1937 Villain worked as a punch in the Siemens-Schuckertwerke in Berlin-Siemensstadt , where she was a member of a resistance group to which Herbert and Marianne Baum later also belonged. On February 22, 1939, she was arrested at her workplace in the small building and taken to the Ravensbrück concentration camp without trial. The soap room she had to work in became a secret meeting place for political prisoners. Villain hid drafts for lectures, leaflets and other anti-fascist material in her bed. Villain died in 1942 as a result of poor prison conditions.

literature

• Luise Kraushaar : German resistance fighters 1933-1945. Biographies and letters. Volume 2. Dietz, Berlin 1970, pp. 390f.
• Hans-Joachim Fieber et al. (Ed.): Resistance in Berlin against the Nazi regime 1933 to 1945. A biographical lexicon. Volume 8. Trafo-Verlag, Berlin 2005, p. 103.

Web links

• Naming of Spandau streets after women / Today: Minna Villain and Else Sternberg (part 4). Opposition work still done in the concentration camp , in: Berliner Zeitung of July 19, 1996.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hans-Joachim Fieber et al. (Ed.): Resistance in Berlin against the Nazi regime from 1933 to 1945 . Volume 10. Trafo-Verlag, Berlin 2005, p. 16.